The Blog for the Essex County Estate Planning Council

Month: February 2016

Did you know that according to Giving USA, a public-service initiative of the Giving USA Foundation, charitable giving rose 5.4 percent to a record $358.4 billion in 2014? That’s a lot of philanthropic dollars. Perhaps even more amazing is that 72 percent of those dollars were donated by individuals. Today, 20 members of the Essex … More Charitable Giving as Part of an Estate Plan